1. 27 Apr, 2016 1 commit
  2. 25 Apr, 2016 17 commits
  3. 18 Apr, 2016 1 commit
    • Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar
      cpufreq: Abort cpufreq_update_current_freq() for cpufreq_suspended set · c9d9c929
      Rafael J. Wysocki authored
      Since governor operations are generally skipped if cpufreq_suspended
      is set, cpufreq_start_governor() should do nothing in that case.
      
      That function is called in the cpufreq_online() path, and may also
      be called from cpufreq_offline() in some cases, which are invoked
      by the nonboot CPUs disabing/enabling code during system suspend
      to RAM and resume.  That happens when all devices have been
      suspended, so if the cpufreq driver relies on things like I2C to
      get the current frequency, it may not be ready to do that then.
      
      To prevent problems from happening for this reason, make
      cpufreq_update_current_freq(), which is the only function invoked
      by cpufreq_start_governor() that doesn't check cpufreq_suspended
      already, return 0 upfront if cpufreq_suspended is set.
      
      Fixes: 3bbf8fe3 (cpufreq: Always update current frequency before startig governor)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
      c9d9c929
  4. 10 Apr, 2016 1 commit
    • Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar
      intel_pstate: Avoid getting stuck in high P-states when idle · ffb81056
      Rafael J. Wysocki authored
      Jörg Otte reports that commit a4675fbc (cpufreq: intel_pstate:
      Replace timers with utilization update callbacks) caused the CPUs in
      his Haswell-based system to stay in the very high frequency region
      even if the system is completely idle.
      
      That turns out to be an existing problem in the intel_pstate driver's
      P-state selection algorithm for Core processors.  Namely, all
      decisions made by that algorithm are based on the average frequency
      of the CPU between sampling events and on the P-state requested on
      the last invocation, so it may get stuck at a very hight frequency
      even if the utilization of the CPU is very low (in fact, it may get
      stuck in a inadequate P-state regardless of the CPU utilization).
      The only way to kick it out of that limbo is a sufficiently long idle
      period (3 times longer than the prescribed sampling interval), but if
      that doesn't happen often enough (eg. due to a timing change like
      after the above commit), the P-state of the CPU may be inadequate
      pretty much all the time.
      
      To address the most egregious manifestations of that issue, reset the
      core_busy value used to determine the next P-state to request if the
      utilization of the CPU, determined with the help of the MPERF
      feedback register and the TSC, is below 1%.
      
      Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115771Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarJörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
      ffb81056
  5. 08 Apr, 2016 17 commits
  6. 05 Apr, 2016 3 commits